Posted on 12/13/2011 6:31:59 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Newt Gingrich Praised SEIU Head Andy Stern's Forward-Looking Vision
In his book "Real Chance: From the World That Fails to the World That Works," Gingrich praises the SEIU head, who remains a close adviser of the President Obama. Pitching the need for conservatives to respect organized labor, while simultaneously pushing back against some of Labor's more cherished legislative goals, he wrote the following:
Conservatives cannot cheer unions overseas and then be blindly anti-union here at home. There are legitimate historic reasons for workers to organize together, and there is a strong need for a healthy, competitive, union, movement that helps improve the lives of its members and the competitiveness of our country.
Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge of the world market and the need to make American union members productive in the face of world competition. Sadly, he is a distinct minority among union leaders.
Below is the actual link, but it shouldn't be clickable. I put the quote from Huff Po into google, and that's how I came up with the link from Newt's actual book link above.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/newt-gingrich-union-seiu-andy-stern_n_1144164.html
Beck just read this on the air live, minutes ago. I know Huff Post isn’t normally something welcome on FR. But given the circumstances, and given that they’re really the only place that’s carrying this as of right now that I saw, other Freepers should be able to see this. I have the link from Gingrich’s book, so we’re not giving Huffpo web hits.
Yikes
Great. We’re going to nominate that POS Romney. MSM and Obama get their way. Again.
Newt praised Andy Stern?
Did he have anything nice to say about Richard Trumka?
Of all the reasons to think twice about Newt this is the most glaring to me.
Newt praised Andy Stern?
Did he have anything nice to say about Richard Trumka?
I simply don’t care. Romney is a pale Obama. Newt isn’t great, but he’s way better.
This and his praise of FDR.
Anyone who has listened to Newts love of FDR “being able to get things DONE” should know! I want to beat Obama as badly as the next person...but we don’t need a BIG Gov’t Republican to do the job. Time to look a little further down the line
Newt is not getting his information about Conservatives cheering unions overseas from conservatives!
Keep reading the passage, the meaning changes from what is insinuated by this snippit, IMHO. Not sold on Newt here, but these studid claims should be questioned.
I simply don’t care. Romney is a pale Obama. Newt isn’t great, but he’s way better.
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Are these the only alternatives in this primary??? Lets spread the votes around and hope for a brokered convention where Cain makes a come back. Notice Cain hasn’t endorsed anyone yet.
I didn’t read anything there that said he was a Progressive.
Now go find something else to hyperventilate over.
There are other candidates besides Mitt and McNewt. Let’s find a conservative and vote for him/her. Romney has zero chance of winning the nomination.
I notice that all the AOL news on AOL.com main page is posted at huffpost now. So clicking on the news article on AOL takes you to huffpost. It's annoying.
I'm still in the anybody but Obama category, but God help us if we trade one progressive in for another. Or cause such a riff that we drive too many into voting for a third party and end up with Obama again.
So we weren’t cheering the Polish unions when they stood up to the communists?
The left attacks those who they fear.
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